Slashfood

• Secret to weight loss might be density
  

  Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Grains, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Fruit, Lists, How To, America, Health & Medical

  Hooray! Yet another article about the end-all, be-all method to finally, yes finally (!) lose weight!
  
  Ugh.
  
  Strangely enough, the tips in an article by Sally Squires of the Washington Post are absolutely normal, and if I'm going to poke fun at anything at all, it's the fact that the logic behind the Energy Density method is absolutely sound.
  
  Basically, you replace food with a high energy density with foods that have low energy-density....
  



• How to make tofu, a la Cool Hunting
  

  Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Asia, On the Blogs, How To, Light Food, Health & Medical

  
  I eat a lot of tofu, not because I'm vegan/vegetarian and have to eat some sort of protein, but because tofu tastes good to me. (My being Asian and eating tofu all my life might have something to do with this, too.)
  
  Now, it is just way too easy to pick up several blocks of tofu from the market for ninety-nine cents each, sometimes less when it's on sale, but if you have some time on your hands, you can...
  



• Recipe: Baba Ghanouj, aka Eggplant and I are an "item"
  

  Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Spirit of Summer, Roasting, Middle East, Condiments, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Spices

  
  At the start of every summer, I do this. I tell myself I am going to make all kinds of new foods with the summer's produce bounty, particularly vegetables that I have never cooked myself before. Like a high school girl on summer vacation between sophomore and junior year, I want to flirt with...
  



• If it's winter where you are, pumpkin soup
  

  Filed under: Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Australia, On the Blogs, How To, Fall Flavors

  
  Wondering What Kim Ate? Wondering why Kim ate something so wintry? I'll tell you. Food blogger Kim writes the food blog What Kim Ate from New Zealand, so while we may be eating salad and cold soups here in the northern hemisphere, Kim and her partner Thomas are savoring the flavors of the opposite season. This is a simple soup made from pumpkin, potatoes and vegetable stock. As cooked, it's vegan, but with the garnish of what looks like...
  



• Eat your mojitos as dessert
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Vegetarian, Vegan, Recipes, Fruit, Baking, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food, Sugar

  
  Not that I would ever turn down a real mojito, but if for some reason I had to eat a dessert instead of drinking a cocktail, I'd love this Mojito Cupcake, from food blog Vegan Yum Yum. The recipe in on the blog post, but as a summary, the cake is a modified version of the golden vanilla cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Soymilk was infused with traditional mojito flavors,...
  



• Chocolate with meat makes vegetarians mad
  

  Filed under: Dessert, British Isles, Science, Business, Vegetarian, Vegan, Beef, Chocolate, Europe, Health & Medical

  
  Well this just gives new meaning to the idea of "dairy" in chocolate.
  

  Britain's most popular lines of candy and chocolate have admitted that their choclate bars like Mars, Snickers, Maltesers, and Milky Way now contain whey that is derived from a cow's stomach. The enzyme rennet, which is extracted from the stomach-lining of slaughtered newborn calves and is used in traditional cheese production, is being used by the candy makers.

  It now appears...
  



• How to cure your own olives
  

  Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, West Coast, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, On the Blogs, How To, America, Europe

  
  Have you ever eaten an olive straight from the tree? Doesn't sound like it would be so fabulously fresh and delicious, like a fresh-picked apple?
  
  Wrong. Olives taste like (excuse the language) crap when they're fresh from the olive tree.
  
  Olives have to brined, or cured. Sean Timberlake, one of my favorite Bay Area food bloggers, went home with a bin of fresh olives and went to the...
  



• Making kimchee at home, step-by-step
  

  Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Asia, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America, Comfort Food, Spices

  
  If there's one food I couldn't live without, it's kimchee. It makes sense, since I'm Korean and all. And you would think that 1) being Korean and 2) it being my favorite food, I would know how to make the spicy, pickled cabbage, but I don't. I'm sure I could read a "recipe" and do it, but unlike other "packaged" foods, kimchee from the store tastes pretty damned good. You see y'all, making kimchee is a major to-do, and...
  



• Leftovers from your Derby Day mint juleps?
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Vegetarian, Vegan, Recipes, Fruit, How To, America, Spirits

  
  Yesterday was a big day for fans. Which fans? Basically, any and all fans who wanted to celebrate anything, whether you were celebrating Cinco de Mayo, holding your breath during the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight, swirling your twirl for Tom Jones in Vegas, or cheering for the horses at the Kentucy Derby.
  
  If it was the Kentucky Derby, then no doubt you were sipping on mint juleps all day long. If you happen to have some of the mint-infused simple syrup left, you might...
  



• Sarah's Spring Crunch Salad
  

  Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, West Coast, Restaurants, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America

  
  I recently went to The Penthouse, the new restaurant at the top of The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. While the food was a little less than spectacular, the view of the Pacific from that high up was pretty stunning. However, there was one thing I ate that got my attention, which was their Green Crunch Salad.
  
  The mix of crunchy greens tossed with a spicy vinaigrette...